This wonderful artist is known for his love of painting weather. On askart.com it even lists him for this. In 2008 one of his paintings of weather was included in an exhibition in Washington D.C. at the National Academy of Sciences.

Born in 1967 he first worked in the animation genre after attending college at the University California Davis.

The link shows some of the artists widely collected tornado series. Many times its as if the person depicted is oblivious to the impending doom.

The most remarkable drawing I have ever seen was by Rembrandt, he did very nice drawing heightened with white of a flash of lightening. I still remember seeing at the Rijksmuseum. Wow!

these next couple of posts will be about artists who paint the amusement park scene. Everything can be fine art!

The first artist is David Levine. He was born in 1926 and died in 2009. He was well respected as a caricature artist and had work published in Playboy and Esquire and numerous other magazines. One of his favorites subjects to paint was Coney Island. He did many watercolors of the Boardwalk and Coney Island. His work in watercolors was similar to Burton Silvermans, using the watercolor in a thicker application and using it like an acrylic so he was able to paint and correct just as an artist does for oils or acrylics. Don’t have to be so pressured to make every stroke matter as in traditional water color.

The artist was born and grew up in Brooklyn. Showing great artistic promise he even auditioned for an animator position with Disney at the age of 9! He went on to study art at Temple University and its Tyler School of Art.

For the New York Review of Books he turned in more than 3800 illustrations!

Due to macular degeneration of his eyes and blindness he didn’t really produce anything new for the review after 2007.

Here is too looking at amusements parks depicted in oils and fine art!

Smell the popcorn, candied apples, and cotton candy!

The clip below is about the artist and his paintings of presidents and celebrities from 1966 to the last presidential election.

This guy was an artists artist. For me being an artist is about taking whats is available and making it your own. This man not only was a great painter, but also a fine musician and actor. He was born in 1923 in New York to Russian Jewish parents. He even studied at Juilliard School of Music with Miles Davis and remained a close friend of the jazz singer until his death in 1951.

He studied with famed artist teacher Hans Hoffman in the 1940s. In the 1950s he became a pop artist and was one of 11 New York City Painters to have a show at the Terrain Gallery.

The artist lived with other artists in Hotel Chelsea in the 1960s. Also living in the location were Bob Dylan,Janis Joplin, Len Cohen, Arthur Clarke, and Sid Vicious.

He traveled to Africa a couple of times in the 60s and was nearly killed for being a suspected mercenary.

The artist passed away in 2002.

A brief 28 minute interview about the artist made in 1978.

Don’t stop learning! And also learn as many different crafts and mediums as possible. Visual audio always learn!

this artist was born in Houston, Texas in 1958. When he was 8 years old he spent one year in Germany. He learned a new language and culture. In fact he became obsessed with mid evil life and culture.

The artist attended Princeton University and was on the rowing team. His interest in calligraphy led him to remake tapestries and even his master thesis was done on the writing types of mid evil manuscripts.

The artist then went to London to further his studies in writing. He began his career as an artist over in England with famous calligrapher Donald Jackson.

this is another great artist who developed his own typography and font styles and made them seen as fine art, collectible fine art.

The artist was born in Doha in 1955. He resides now in Qatar. The artist went to college in Mills College in California finishing in 1982. He uses a variety of mixed media in his works as well as handmade paper.

this artist is another great writer. I have no idea what is being written about, but think the line work is simply great from a design standpoint. The artist was born in Syria and graduated college from Damascus in 1977. He studied under known calligrapher master Badawi Al Dirany

He has worked as a book designer and calligraphy artist since the mid 60s.

continuing on the theme of typography and calligraphy I found another great artist who uses calligraphy and some great colors for unique and expressive results.

Like the previous artist, this artist was born in Syria in 1958 and went to the university of Damascus and also went to study abroad in Paris.

I enjoy the art very much despite not knowing exactly what the message his words are trying to portray. The design and color are very harmonious. His works that have to do with the figure are very emotional since only tone is provided to the viewer. Similar to Kathe Kolwitz etchings but these are done in paints. He has been in many high end art auctions such as Sothebys.

Below is a clip of the artist working, notice the large sizes of his work. Sorry I couldn’t locate English translations but check out the works done by the artist that appear during the interview.

with all the bad publicity the mid east region is getting let us take a look at some artists trying to shape the world in a positive way.

This artist was born in Syria in 1970. He grew up in a house where he could see various artforms such as calligraphy, music, and painting.

By the time he was 18 he was known as a calligrapher. Perhaps more than for painting this artist is known for his use of Arabic Calligraphy.

At the first festival of International Calligraphers he won a prize for being among the 10 best. He works in oils acrylics and other mediums. It appears some of the pieces I have put here have a glossy sheen, perhaps he covers some pieces in resin when he is done. I am not sure.

He taught Arabic Calligraphy at the University of Michigan and has hosted many workshops in the states on Arabic Calligraphy.

The Thulth style of writing is used frequently by the artist. It involves making the letters into a triangle shape.

this artist passed away last year in 2010. Well known for her printmaking and etching with cats, dogs, and flowers. The artist was born in 1926 in Boise and attended college at Stanford University. The artist also studied abroad in Mexico and France.